This Sunday in the UK is Remembrance Sunday, and in a timely coincidence a genealogy site has released searchable records for Ireland’s casualties.
1911 census records were released recently for Cork. I have transcribed some of the details, focusing on Church of Ireland parishioners. The first transcript is for the townlands of Desertserges, and can be found here.
This is a somewhat dark story from the history of the union.
On the evening of Saturday 1st November 1902 the Rev William Bell was found apparently burned to death in his hay-barn…
A Short History of a Very Long Time at St Mary’s Desertserges, Co. Cork
By Judith F. Hubbard-Jones 2008
Desertserges – meaning ‘Seargus’ or ‘Fergus’ hermitage. This hermit is thought to be a member of the Celtic Christian monastic Community at Kinneigh, believed to have been founded by St Colman around 617/19. We don’t know exactly where [...]